terrible twos 2.0 and spongebob

I updated my terrible two's layout with a new picture that better illustrates a tantrum:

And a two for one layout - one for a challenge on MSS to make a home made embellishment and another challenge to take a break from the holiday craziness to enjoy a moment with someone you love and then scrap about it.

welcome to the terrible twos

Click on the picture to see it larger so you can read the story of the horrible tantrum dd threw!

December Daily Journal - days 4 to 10

I'm actually all up to date on my december daily journal. Here are the pages for days 4 to 10:

Santa picture at the mall. Too bad DH is the only one looking at the camera!

My mom's birthday party (front)

back of mom's bday party page and an envelope with this year's Christmas cards

the envelope opened up

decorating the tree

journalling on the back of the tree layout

and a page for our church care group Christmas party

the recipe and journalling card that are in the pocket for day 8

some favourite Christmas albums

The back of day 9 is some old sheet music from band in highschool.

Day 10 is about our tradition of buying a new ornament each year

and the ornament we bought this year.

I'm loving this project so far and looking forward to working on it some more!

December Daily Journal - days 1, 2 and 3

I'm up to date so far with my December daily. I love how with all of the different sizes and types of pages you can see other parts of the journal peeking through. LOVE! Here it is so far:

title page

my intro page

December 1st - first snowfall

December 2nd, playing in the snow with DD

December 3rd, baking cookies with DD

What I've ben scrappin'

A few pages that have been in the works have finally been completed. Sorry for the quality of the picture of the first one. I either had it kinda fuzzy like this or lots of glare. It's a page about how DD can count to 10 and pretty much say the entire alphabet and she's only 23 months old. So proud of my smart girl! DH even helped with this one a bit, I couldn't figure out what looked wrong and he suggested I change the background cardstock from white to green and it worked! The layout is from Creating Keepsakes magazine.

This layout used a sketch from the MSS blog. I also used some of the paper I won on the blog and incorporated a couple of challenges from this weekend's online crop. I embellished my embellishments (the gems on the snowflakes) and I used my own cursive handwriting for the journalling.

For the album I'm doing for ds I need a couple of single page layouts so I decided to do one with the lyrics to John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy" song since I love to sing it to him.

I've also caught up on putting the pictures that I haven't used in layouts into the special page protectors at the end of the album. Again, sorry for the lousy photos.

Winter is here

After an unusually warm November we finally had our first big snowfall last night. What a beautiful and fitting way to start December!

This is the view we woke up to out our window:

DD was thrilled - "Snow! Wooooow!"

I took DD outside to play in the snow. She loved stomping around in it and kept asking me if she could touch it. She was a bit timid about touching it, but that will soon change I'm sure! I built a snowman for her and now she keeps looking out the window at it. She's totally thrilled!

And the latest with DS is he's rolling over by himself. Look how proud of himself he is!

And in the world of scrapping I finally did a challenge from last months online crop - I got DH to choose 4 things and I used them in a page. He chose the alphabet stickers, the patterned paper, the white ribbon and the flower brad. I had the pictures lying around and had never gotten around to scrapping them so Voila! It didn't take long. I love it when the creative juices run freely!